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Recent (and not-so-recent) colloquia, for reference.
Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2006
| Sep 13 | Hector Arce | American Museum of Natural History | Protostellar outflows and their influence on the star formation environment | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Sep 20 | Jennifer Sokoloski | Columbia University | Observations of Stellar Explosions and Jets | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Sep 27 | Charles Gammie | University of Illinois | Numerical Models of Black Hole Accretion Flows | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Oct 04 | Sarbani Basu | Yale University | Journey to the Centre of the Sun | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Oct 11 | David Weinberg | Ohio State University | What Can We Learn From Galaxy Clustering? | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Oct 18 | Brian O'Shea | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Population III stars and the formation of the first protogalaxies | Abstract | Host: Greg Bryan | |||||
| Oct 25 | Albert Stebbins | Fermilab | An Anthrocentric Universe | Abstract | Host: Lam Hui | |||||
| Nov 01 | Jim Kasting | Pennsylvania State University | Gaia Revisited: the Interplay Between Climate and Life on the Early Earth | Abstract | Host: Caleb Scharf | |||||
| Nov 08 | Alycia Weinberger | Carnegie Institution of Washington | Studying the Conditions for Planet Formation in Circumstellar Disks | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Nov 15 | Victor Debattista | University of Washington, Seattle | Secular Evolution of Galaxies: From Dark Halos to Nuclei | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Nov 21 TUESDAY | Keivan Stassun | Vanderbilt University | A Synthesis of Fundamental Issues in the Formation and Early Evolution of Low-Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs | Abstract | Host:Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Nov 29 | Houjun Mo | University of Massachusetts, Amherst | Establishing the Relationship Between Galaxies and Dark Matter | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Dec 01 FRIDAY SPECIAL TALK | Mary Putman | University of Michigan | What goes on in the dark of galaxy halos? | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Dec 08 FRIDAY AT NYU BIG APPLE COLLOQUIUM | Volker Springel | MPA, Munich | Supermassive black holes and cosmic rays in simulations of galaxy formation | Abstract | Host: Glennys Farrar (NYU) |
Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2007
| Jan 17 | Aaron Evans | Stony Brook | Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Low-Redshift QSO Hosts | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Jan 24 | Ann Zabludoff | Univ. of Arizona | The Importance of Lens Environments | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Jan 31 | Dennis Zaritsky | Univ. of Arizona | How Big are Galaxies? | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Feb 07 | Eiichiro Komatsu | Univ. of Texas | Latest Results from Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe: Three-year Observations | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Feb 14 | Elizabeth Barton | UC Irvine | Understanding Galaxy Interactions | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Feb 21 | Joshua Winn | MIT | The Transit of Exoplanets | Abstract | Host: Lam Hui | |||||
| Feb 28 | Rosie Wyse | Johns Hopkins University | Dark Matter on Galactic Scales: The Milky Way and her Dwarfs | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Mar 02 | Andrey Kravtsov | U. Chicago | Cosmological Simulations of Clusters of Galaxies: Status, Problems, Challenges | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Mar 09 FRIDAY BIG APPLE COLLOQUIUM | Geoff Marcy | UC Berkeley | Exoplanets: From Giants to Rocky Planets | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Mar 14 | Spring Break - No Colloquium | |||||||||
| Mar 21 | Alessandra Buonanno | Univ. of Maryland | Binary Black-Hole Coalescence | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Mar 28 | Arlin Crotts | Columbia University | Sources of the Lunar Atmosphere: Key to the Moon's Past and Future | Abstract | Host: all of us | |||||
| Apr 04 | John Salzer | Wesleyan | Making Hay with ALFALFA - Properties of Galaxies Discovered in "Blind" HI Surveys | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Apr 11 | Alison Farmer | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | How to escape from Saturn (and other places) | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Apr 18 | Avi Loeb | Harvard University | Three Astrophysical Laboratories for Particle Physics | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Apr 25 | Andrew Mac Fadyen | NYU | GRBs from Massive Stars | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Apr 27 FRIDAY BISHOP LECTURE Room 428, 4pm | Richard Ellis | Caltech | Characterizing the Sources Responsible for Cosmic Reionization | Abstract | Host: David Helfand | |||||
| May 02 | Andreea Petric, Michel Zamojski, Ben Johnson | Columbia | A Multiwavelength Approach to Determining the Properties of Dust in Different Astrophysical Environments;Probing the build-up of the Hubble sequence and its relation to cosmic star formation history; Extraordinary Views of Ordinary Galaxies | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom |
Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2007
| Sep 05 | Kevin Luhman | Penn State | The Origin of Brown Dwarfs | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Sep 12 | Jennifer Johnson | Ohio State | My Life in the Bulge: A G-Dwarf Perspective | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Sep 19 | Fred Lo | NRAO | Mega-masers, Dark Energy and the Hubble Constant | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Sep 26 | Greg Laughlin | UC Santa Cruz | Eccentric Giants -- Hydrodynamical Simulations of Extrasolar Planets Subject to Time-Varying Illumination | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Oct 03 | Marla Geha | Yale University | Meet the New Neighbors: Kinematics of the Ultra-Faint Milky Way Dwarf Galaxies | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Oct 10 | Henrik Spoon | Cornell University | Probing the central power sources of ULIRG nuclei using Spitzer-IRS | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Oct 17 | Steve Furlanetto | Yale University | Cosmology at Low Radio Frequencies: The 21cm Transition | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Oct 24 | Nathan Smith | UC Berkeley | Precursors to supernova explosions and extraordinary deaths of very massive stars | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Special: Friday Oct 26 | Adam Burrows | Univ. Arizona | Big Apple Colloquium @ AMNH: Extrasolar Giant Planets: New Insights from New Data | Abstract | Host: Ben Oppenheimer | |||||
| Oct 31 | Erin Sheldon | NYU | CANCELLED | Abstract | Host: Lam Hui |
| Nov 07 | James Jee | UC Davis | Dark Matter Substructures in Galaxy Clusters Revealed by Gravitational Lensing with HST/ACS | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Nov 14 | Hsiao-Wen Chen | University of Chicago | Halo Occupation of Dark Baryons | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Friday at 4pm Nov 16 | Eline Tolstoy | University of Gronigen | Galactic Archaelogy | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Special: Tuesday Nov 20 | Casey Papovich | University of Arizona | Galaxy Evolution in the Spitzer Era: What Have We Learned? | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Nov 28 | Erin Sheldon | NYU | Cluster Lensing in the SDSS | Abstract | Host: Lam Hui |
| Dec 05 | Oded Regev | Technion & Columbia | Accretion disk theory - recent turbulent developments | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou |
Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2008
| Jan 23 | Christy Tremonti | Arizona | Can Quasars Quench Star Formation? New clues from the study of fossil galactic winds in post-starburst galaxies | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Jan 30 | Chris Stubbs | Harvard | Testing Gravity with Telescopes | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Feb 6 | Guinevere Kauffmann | MPA-Garching | New insights into the Starburst-AGN connection | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Feb 13 | Miguel Morales | Univ. Washington | Epoch of Reionization and other science with the MWA | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Feb 20 | Romeel Dave | Arizona | The Impact of Galactic Outflows Across Cosmic Scales | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Feb 27 | Alicia Soderberg | Princeton | A Unique View of the GRB-SN Connection through Radio and X-ray Observations | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Mar 5 | David Hogg | NYU | Direct measurements of the assembly of massive galaxies | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Mar 12 | Edo Berger | Princeton | Magnetic Activity in Low Mass Stars and Brown Dwarfs - Exploring the Nature of the Dynamo | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou |
Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2008
| Sep 10 | Michael Shull | University of Colorado at Boulder | Baryons and Metals in the low-redshift Intergalactic Medium and Galactic Halo | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Sep 17 | Omer Blaes | UC Santa Barbara | How Does Accretion Onto Black Holes Really Produce the Light We Observe in Quasars and X-ray Binaries? | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Sep 24 | Amy Barger | University of Wisconsin at Madison | The Star Formation and Accretion Histories of the Universe | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Oct 01 | Bruce Draine | Princeton University | Interstellar Dust Models, Formation of Interstellar Dust, and the Dust Entering the Heliosphere Today | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Oct 08 | Piero Madau | UC Santa Cruz | The Via Lactea Project: A Glimpse into the Invisible World of Dark Matter | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Oct 15 | Laura Ferrarese | Herzberg Institute, Victoria, CA | The Structure of Early-Type Galaxies from the ACS Virgo and Fornax Cluster Surveys: Cores, Stellar Nuclei and Supermassive Black Holes | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Oct 22 | Juna Kollmeier | Carnegie Observatory | The Lyman alpha Glow of High-redshift Structure | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Oct 29 | Jason Prochaska | UC Santa Cruz | Revealing the ISM of High z Galaxies with GRB Afterglows | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Nov 05 | Jim Liebert | Univ. of Arizona | Topic TBD | Abstract | Host: Joe Patterson | |||||
| Nov 12 | Benjamin Mc Call | University of Illinois | H3+ and the Interstellar Cosmic-Ray Ionization Rate | Abstract | Host: Daniel Savin | |||||
| Nov 19 | Jerry Ostriker | Princeton University | ON THE FORMATION OF MASSIVE GALAXIES | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Nov 26 | Thanksgiving: No Colloquium | |||||||||
| Dec 05 *FRIDAY* CANCELED | Tim Heckman | Johns Hopkins University | Big Apple Colloquium -- CANCELED | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Dec 10 | Scott Trager | University of Groningen | Dissecting the stellar content of early-type galaxies: Clues to their formation and evolution | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston |
Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2009
| Jan 12 *Special* *Seminar* | Mario Livio | STScI | The Greatest Achievements of the Hubble Space Telescope | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Jan 30 *FRIDAY* *AT AMNH* at 3:30pm | Alex Filippenko | UC Berkeley | Big Apple Colloquium Lick Observatory Supernova Search and Follow-Up Studies of Supernovae | Abstract | Host: Ben Oppenheimer reception 5-7:30 among dinosaurs | |||||
| Feb 4 | Fabian Heitsch | University of Michigan | From Spiral Arms to Protostellar Cores: New Approaches to Understanding Star Formation | Abstract | Host: Mary Putman | |||||
| Feb 11 | Jerry Sellwood | Rutgers University | New Developments in Spiral Structure Theory | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Feb 20 *FRIDAY* AT 3:30pm | Andy Gould | Ohio State University | Microlensing: Measuring the Galactic Distribution of Planets (Bishop lecture) PDF slides | Abstract | Host: David Helfand | |||||
| Feb 25 | Mark Krumholz | UC Santa Cruz | From Massive Cores to Massive Stars | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Mar 4 | Phil Armitage | Univ. of Colorado | Is our Solar System a typical planetary system? | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Mar 11 | Risa Wechsler | Stanford University | The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time: Constraints and Implications | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| Mar 18 | No Colloquium | Spring Break | ||||||||
| Mar 25 | Rosalba Perna | University of Colorado, Boulder | Neutron Star Spins: in lonely life and with companions | Abstract | Host: Zoltan Haiman | |||||
| Apr 1 | Zeljko Ivezic | University of Washington | Reaching for the sky with SDSS and LSST | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Apr 8 | Avery Broderick | CITA, Toronto | Imaging Horizons: Probing the Nature of Black Holes | Abstract | Host: Kristen Menou | |||||
| Apr 15 | Martin Weinberg | University of Massachussetts | Galactic warps & asymmetries: origins and implications | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston | |||||
| Apr 24 FRIDAY 3PM in Room 428 | Tim Heckman | Johns Hopkins University | Big Apple Colloquium: The Co-Evolution of Galaxies and Black Holes: A Local Perspective | Abstract | Host: David Schiminovich | |||||
| Apr 29 | Michael Way | Goddard Institute for Space Sciences | A history of the prediction and detection of the expansion of the Universe and of the CMB | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| May 5 *TUESDAY | Graduating Students | Columbia University | Title TBD | Abstract | Host: TBD | |||||
| May 27 | Marcel Agueros | Columbia University | Tales From The Haystack: Isolated Neutron Stars and Low-Mass White Dwarfs | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| July 22 | Franz Bauer | Columbia University | Late-time Evolution in (some) Massive Stars: Constraints from the Nearby SN1996cr | Abstract | Host: Jacqueline van Gorkom | |||||
| August 4 | Sanjib Sharma | Columbia University | Group finding in multi-dimensional data sets and its application to Galactic Archeology | Abstract | Host: Kathryn Johnston |
Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2009
| Who | "From" | Title | Abstract | Host: | ||||||
| Sept 30 | Debra Elmegreen | Vassar | Clumpy Galaxies in the Early Universe | Abstract | Host: Kathryn J | |||||
| Oct 7 | John Monnier | U. Michigan | Milli-arcsecond Imaging with the CHARA Interferometer | Abstract | Host: Jeno S | |||||
| Oct 14 | Douglas Finkbeiner | Harvard | Fermi gamma rays, the WMAP haze, and dark matter | Abstract | Host: David S | |||||
| Oct 21 | Greg Bryan | Columbia | Star Formation in the Early Universe: what drove the transition from Population III to Population II? | Abstract | Host: Kristen | |||||
| Oct 28 | Maryam Modjaz | U.C. Berkeley | Elucidating the SN-GRB Connection from the SN Perspective | Abstract | Host: Jeno S | |||||
| *Nov 6* Big Apple @ NYU | Marc Kamionkowski | Caltech | Is the Universe (statistically) isotropic? | Abstract | Host: R. Scoccimarro | |||||
| Nov 11 | Nadia Zakamska | Princeton | Molecular hydrogen emission in extragalactic objects | Abstract | Host: Kristen | |||||
| Nov 18 | Elizabeth Hays | GSFC | First Year Results from the Fermi Large Area Telescope | Abstract | Host: Kristen | |||||
| Dec 2 | Lars Hernquist | Harvard | In Search of a Unified Picture for Galaxy Evolution | Abstract | Host: Kathryn J | |||||
| Dec 9 | Gaspar Bakos | CfA | Exploring the diversity of extrasolar planets with the HATNet project | Abstract | Host: Zoltan | |||||
Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2010
| Who | Institution | Title | Abstract | Host: | ||||||
| January 27 | Mark Reid | Harvard-Smithsonian CfA | "Measuring the Cosmos" | Abstract | Host: Jeno S | |||||
| February 5: FRIDAY @ 3PM | Lloyd Knox | UC Davis | Anisotropies in the infrared background as a probe of the complete history of star formation | Abstract | Host: Zoltan | |||||
| February 17 | Eric Gotthelf | Columbia | Anti-Magnetars: An Exotic New Class of High Energy Pulsars | Abstract | Host: Jeno S | |||||
| February 24 | Vicky Kaspi | Mcgill | 'Grand Unification' in Neutron Stars | Abstract | Host: Jeno S | |||||
| March 3 | Jack Hughes | Rutgers University | First Results from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope: SZ Detections of Galaxy Clusters | Abstract | Host: Zoltan | |||||
| March 10 | Dusan Keres | Harvard/CFA | How do galaxies get their gas? | Abstract | Host: Mary | |||||
| March 17 | SPRING BREAK | |||||||||
| March 24 | Tommaso Treu | UCSB | New observational tests of the LCDM (with pesky baryons) paradigm | Abstract | Host: David S | |||||
| March 31 | Jenny Greene | Princeton University | Beyond the M-sigma relation: Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution | Abstract | Host: Kathryn J | |||||
| April 7 | Daniel Apai | STScI | The Formation of Planets around the Sun and Other Stars | Abstract | Host: Caleb | |||||
| April 14 | Suvi Gezari | JHU | Synergistic Transient Searches in the Ultraviolet and Optical | Abstract | Host: David S | |||||
| April 16: 3:00 PM ROOM 428 | Joan Centrella | GSFC | BIG APPLE COLLOQUIUM: Black Hole Mergers, Gravitational Waves, and Numerical Relativity | Abstract | Host: David S | |||||
| April 21 | Angela Speck | University of Missouri | Through The Looking Glass: A Re-analysis of Silicate Dust Spectral Features | Abstract | Host: Jeno S | |||||
| April 28 | Phil Hopkins | UC Berkeley | How do Massive Black Holes Get their Gas? | Abstract | Host: Zoltan | |||||
| May 3: 4:15 PM ROOM 428 | Rashid Sunyaev | MPA, Munich | Accretion of gas with small angular momentum onto supermassive black holes in elliptical galaxies | Abstract | Host: Zoltan | |||||
| May 5 NOTE SPECIAL TIME 4:00 PM | Graduating Students Emily Rauscher, Cien Sheng, Stephanie Tonnesen, Sarah Tuttle, Jessica Werk | Columbia | Modeling Hot Jupiter Atmospheres: Probing a New Regime of Circulation and SMBH Formation by Direct Collapse: Keep Protogalactic Gas Free of Hydrogen Molecules and A Tale of Tails and FIREBall - The Faint Intergalactic Redshifted Emission Balloon and Star Formation on the Fringes: The Frequency and Nature of Outlying HII Regions | Abstract | Host: DS + advisors | |||||
| May 19: SPECIAL SUMMER COLLOQUIUM | Niv Drory | MPE | The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) | Abstract | Host: David S/Tuttle | |||||
Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2010
| Who | Institution | Title | Abstract | Host: | ||||||
| September 15 | Mansi Kasliwal | Caltech | Abstract | David H | ||||||
| September 22 | Daniel Wolf Savin | Columbia | The Genesis Projects: Laboratory Studies in Molecular Astrophysics from the First Star to the Beginnings of Organic Chemistry | Abstract | Kathryn J | |||||
| September 29 | Milos Milosavljevic | UT Austin | Growing Massive Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn | Abstract | Jeno | |||||
| October 6 | Teddy Cheung | NASA/Goddard | Two Surprises from the Fermi Large Area Telescope | Abstract | Jeno | |||||
| October 13 | Juan Uson | Observatoire de Paris-LERMA | Superthin Galaxies | Abstract | Jacqueline | |||||
| October 20 | Daisuke Nagai | Yale | Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters: Recent Advances and Future Challenges | Abstract | Mary | |||||
| October 27 | M Ryan Joung | Columbia | Cold Streams, Hot Winds | Abstract | Kathryn J | |||||
| November 3 | David Kaplan | UW, Milwaukee | Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars | Abstract | Marcel | |||||
| November 10 | Sean Mc Williams | Columbia | Gravitational Wave Astronomy with Black Hole Binary Mergers | Abstract | Kathryn J | |||||
| November 17 | Josh Peek | Columbia | Casting shadows on the standard interstellar medium paradigm with GALFA-HI | Abstract | Mary | |||||
| December 8 | Michael Allison | NASA/GISS and Columbia | The Celestial Cartography of Grand Central Terminal’s Sky Ceiling – A Meeting of Classical Astronomy and the Beaux Arts | bstract | Kathryn J | |||||
Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2011
| Date | Speaker | Institution | Title | Abstract | Host |
| January 26 - Bishop Lecture | Nick Scoville | Caltech | Evolution of Cosmic Large Scale Structure and Galaxies from the COSMOS Survey | Abstract | Jacqueline |
| February 2 | Andrew West | Boston University | Not your parents' M dwarfs: What low-mass stars can tell us about magnetic fields, Galactic dynamics, the distribution of dust and the widest binaries in the Milky Way | Abstract | Marcel |
| February 9 | Daniel Fabrycky | UCSC | Planetary Systems from Kepler | Abstract | Kristen / Jeno |
| February 16 | Debra Fischer | Yale | Searching for Earths | Abstract | Kathryn J |
| February 23 | Warren Brown | CfA, Harvard | Black Holes and Hypervelocity Stars | Abstract | Kathryn J |
| March 2 | Ed Belbruno | Princeton | Minimal Energy Transfers, Black Hole Dynamics, and Weak Stability Boundaries | Abstract | Arlin |
| March 9 - BIG APPLE COLLOQUIUM -- 3:45pm, AMNH Linder Theater | Steven Balbus | ENS & Princeton | The flywheels of helios: making sense of how the Sun (and other stars) go round. | Abstract | @AMNH |
| March 23 | Daniel Kasen | Berkeley | What powers the brightest supernovae? | Abstract | Kristen |
| March 30 | John Johnson | Caltech | Giant Exoplanets in the Stellar Mass-Metallicity Plane | Abstract | Marcel |
| April 6 | Wendy Freedman | OCIW | Bampton Lecture series | TBA | David H |
| April 13 | Wendy Freedman | OCIW | Bampton Lecture series | TBA | David H |
| April 27 | James Bullock | UCI | A Big Dark Satellite Problem for Cold Dark Matter | Abstract | Kathryn J |
| May 4 | Graduating Students | Columbia | PhD talks | Abstracts | All |
Astronomy Colloquium / Fall 2011
| Date | Name | Institution | Title | Abstract | Host | |||||
| September 21 | Volker Bromm | University of Texas Austin | The First Stars and Galaxies | Abstract | Zoltan | |||||
| September 28 | Martin Still | NASA Ames | ASTROPHYSICS WITH KEPLER | Abstract | Jeno | |||||
| October 5 | Lam Hui | Columbia University | Equivalence principle and cosmic acceleration | Abstract | Zoltan | |||||
| October 12 | Feryal Ozel | University of Arizona | Neutron Star Radii and Masses | Abstract | Kristen | |||||
| October 19 | Marten van Kerkwijk | University of Toronto | White dwarf binaries, mergers, and explosions | Abstract | Marcel | |||||
| October 26 | Ruth Murray-Clay | CfA | Planet Formation at Wide Separations | Abstract | Kristen | |||||
| November 2 | Mike Eracleous | Penn State | The Quest for the Dynamical Signature of Close Supermassive Binary Black Holes | Abstract | Jeno | |||||
| November 9 | Mark Neyrinck | Johns Hopkins University | Understanding and Rejuvenating the Universe's Age Wrinkles for Cosmology | Abstract | Zoltan | |||||
| November 16 | Neal Katz | University of Massachusetts | The Birth of the Cool | Abstract | Kathryn | |||||
| November 23 | Thanksgiving: No Colloquium | |||||||||
| November 30 | Priya Natarajan | Yale | The formation of supermassive black holes | Abstract | Zoltan | |||||
| December 9 FRIDAY | Amy Barger | Univ. of Wisconsin | Big Apple Colloquium at NYU | Abstract | Maryam Modjaz |
Astronomy Colloquium / Spring 2012
| Date | Name | Institution | Title | Abstract | Host | |||||
| January 25 | Beth Willman | Haverford | What is a Galaxy? | Abstract | Marcel | |||||
| February 1 | Phil Chang | CITA/Wisconsin-Milwaukee | The Physics and Cosmology of TeV Blazars | Abstract | Kristen | |||||
| February 8 | Janice lee | OCIW | Star Formation in Dwarf Galaxies | Abstract | Kathryn | |||||
| February 17 3PM FRIDAY Pupin 428 | Victoria Kaspi | McGill University | Unifying the Many Faces of Neutron Stars: The High Magnetic Field Connection (Big Apple Colloquium) | Abstract | Jules | |||||
| February 22 | No colloquium | Abstract | ||||||||
| February 29 | Martin Bureau | University of Oxford | The Tully-Fisher Relation: Across Morphological Types and Redshifts | Abstract | Jacqueline | |||||
| March 7 | Eliot Quataert | UC Berkeley | The Physics of Galaxy Cluster Plasmas | Abstract | Zoltan | |||||
| March 14 | SPRING BREAK | |||||||||
| March 21 | Virginia McSwain | Lehigh | Multiwavelength Observations of Gamma-ray Binaries | Abstract | Marcel | |||||
| March 28 | Nicholas Law | Toronto | Cool Stars, Cool Planets, and Extremely Cold Astronomy | Abstract | Marcel | |||||
| April 4 | Jin Koda | Stony Brook | Evolution of Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Galaxies | Abstract | Jacqueline | |||||
| April 11 | Stuart Shapiro | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | The Merger of Binary Black Holes in Gaseous Environments | Abstract | Zoltan | |||||
| April 18 | Monica Valluri | Michigan | Exploring the phase space structure and formation of the Milky Way halo with stellar orbits | Abstract | Kathryn | |||||
| April 25 | Andrea Ghez | UCLA | Bishop Lecture: Bringing our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole and its Environs into Focus with Laser Guide Star Adaptive Optics | Abstract | Frits | |||||
| May 2 | Graduating Students | Columbia University | Jana Grcevich/Cameron Hummels/Colin McNally/Kyle Parfrey/Andreas Svedin | Abstract | ||||||
| May 30 | Diana Valencia | MIT | Characterizing Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes | Abstract | Zoltan |
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